What were the Confederate and Union strategies in the battle of cold harbor?

Question

What were the Confederate and Union strategies in the battle of cold harbor? (civil war)

Answer 1

General Grant continued his overland push toward Richmond after Spotsylvania. He engaged Lee’s forces again at the crossroads of Cold Harbor. The battle line there stretched around seven miles with opposing forces entrenched on either side. The Union soldiers repeatedly assaulted the Confederate lines; progress was minimal and losses were tremendous.



Union losses were estimated at 13,000 and Confederate losses, 2,500. Congressmen and newspaper editors in the North questioned Grant’s performance.



Union soldiers fighting for Grant recognized that their prospects for survival were not good. In the days before dogtags, soldiers wrote their names and hometowns on pieces of paper that were pinned to their uniforms prior to battle.



Grant later acknowledged that his losses at Cold Harbor were far in excess of any military gain. General Lee was performing superbly by executing a defensive strategy with occasional surprise attacks. Grant reconsidered his options and turned his army south, bypassing Richmond.

Answer 2

When you use words like Confederate and Union you don't really need to specify the Civil War.

Answer 3

some would say that neither area emerged helpful at Shiloh, yet thresher's have been given your answer. All battles are undesirable and intestine-wrenching, yet Shiloh became the war's first awful conflict. And, of course, it occurred out west (west for the time). lots of of the worst moments of the Civil war occurred out west.